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Lecture, Friday 20 January 2012
At 12.00h in M102 Sólborg v/Norðurslóð
Eternal Peace – Eternal War. Some remarks on Kant , Heraclitus and Sunzi.
At 12.00h in M102 Sólborg v/Norðurslóð
Eternal Peace – Eternal War. Some remarks on Kant , Heraclitus and Sunzi.
Günter Wohlfart, Professor Emeritus, Wuppertal University will deliver a lecture called: Eternal Peace – Eternal War. Some remarks on Kant , Heraclitus and Sunzi.
1. Kant - Eternal peace : a sweet dream
2. Heraclitus - Eternal war : war as the father of all things
3. Sunzi - The art of war : how to defeat the enemy without fighting
The paper tries to show how ancient Chinese philosophy can help us to respond in a more peaceful, defensive way to the continual dangers of war and find a practicable way between outright bellicosity on the one hand and all-too-good pacifism on the other hand.
N.B. Prof Wohlfart is in Iceland as a guest of the local Confucius Institute. http://www.guenter-wohlfart.de/curriculum.htm
